American Political Science Review

Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition By Amanda Clayton, Vanderbilt University, Diana Z. O’Brien, Washington University in St. Louis, Jennifer M. Piscopo, Occidental College Previous work suggests that observing women officeholders […]

What Do “Left Behind Communities” Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation By Matthew Wood, University of Sheffield, Ivanka Antova, Human Rights Commission, Northern Ireland, Mark Flear, Queen’s University Belfast and […]

UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries By Robert a. Blair, Brown University, Jessica Di Salvatore, University of Warwick, and Hannah M. Smidt, University of St. Gallen and University of Zurich Does UN peacekeeping promote […]

The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors By Michael Bang Petersen, Aarhus University, Mathias Osmundsen, Aarhus University, Kevin Arceneaux, Sciences Po Paris Why are some people motivated to circulate hostile political […]

The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes By Hakeem Jefferson, Stanford University Existing research largely ignores Black support for punitive policies that target group members, even as this support challenges expectations of in-group […]

Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data By Michael Gibilisco, California Institute of Technology, and Jessica Steinberg, Indiana University During violent conflict, governments may acknowledge their use of illegitimate violence (e.g., noncombatant […]